THE 2009 SHENZHEN HONG KONG BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM/ARCHITECTURE

The 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture: City Mobilization investigates the possibility of bottom-up mobilization and the organization of social life, taking its context from China's contemporary urbanity.


DATE
December 6, 2009 - January 23, 2010


MAIN VENUE
Shenzhen Civic Square


SUB-VENUES
Shenzhenwan Avenue
Yitian Holiday Plaza


For more information:
www.szhkbiennale.org/en

Toshihiro Komatsu

The gallery at Wimbledon College of Art
Merton Hall Road
Wimbledon
London
SW19 3QA


Friday 24th April - Friday 22nd May 2009
Weekdays 1 pm - 6 pm
Saturdays 11 am - 3 pm
Closed on Sundays and Bank Holidays

Private View
Thursday 23rd April 2009
6 pm - 9 pm


We are delighted to welcome Toshihiro Komatsu to the Gallery at Wimbledon for his first solo exhibition in the UK. Since studying at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Komatsu has shown extensively both internationally and nationally. He has had exhibitions and projects in a range of public and private exhibitions and project spaces, for example: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; P.S.1, Deitch Projects and Queens Museum of Art, New York;  Watertoren CHK, Netherlands; Ulsan, the Republic of Korea; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan. He is currently Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyoto Seika University.

Building on a dialogue established between Komatsu and Tamiko O'Brien -  Head of School of Fine Art at WCA - initiated while she was on a residency in Tokyo, the project is based on a 1 month residency at WCA. For the exhibition Komatsu will make a new site based work for The Gallery at WCA with other project material on show in the Foyer space.

George Blacklock
Dean of College Wimbledon College of Art


Acknowledgements
the gallery at wimbledon college of art would like to thank everyone who contributed to the exhibition and in particular the following:

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
The Nomura Cultural Foundation
TrAIN, the Universities Research Centre in Transnational Art Identity Nation